From 13-17 June, more than 700 participants (scientists, students, representatives of industrial companies) attended the Graphene Week conference in Warsaw (PL). Graphene Week is the most important event staged by the flagship in 2016. If you missed it you can find here a selection of video interviews, on line articles & background info. Enjoy the reading!
- Informal view of the conference from Jari Kinaret, director of the Graphene Flagship
- Informal view on ramp up phase, (past) and future of Graphene Flagship from Andrea Ferrari (University of Cambridge, UK), Chair management panel of the Graphene Flagship and Director Cambridge Graphene Centre.
Reporting on day 1
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- Some highglights:
- Interview of Dr Wlodek Strupinski who welcomes the participants, as Chair of the Conference (ITME, Poland)
- Summary of the first two talks, given by Kurt Gaskill (Naval Research Facility, USA) & Thomas Seyller (Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany)
- Overview of the Graphene Innovation Forum
- What happened during Day 1 summarised in images
Reporting on day 2
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- Some highglights:
- Nobel Laureate Professor Konstantin Novoselov (University of Manchester, UK) talking about his current research into the creation of 2D heterostructures.
- The Graphene Flagship Head of Innovation Dr Kari Hjelt about how to get from research to innovation
- Informal feedback about the morning plenary session by Dr Luigi Colombo (Texas Instruments, USA), and from Professor Taniguchi Takashi (National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
Reporting on day 3
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- Some highglights:
- Feedback from Professor Hongwei Zhu (Tsinghua University, China) who gave an excellent overview of the potential for graphene in multifunctional applications in the morning plenary session.
- What happens when graphene is imperfect explained by Professor Eva Andrei (Rutgers University, USA)
- Graphene Innovation Forum - Standardisation session was chaired by Dr Katarina Boustedt, Work Package leader of Research Management for the Graphene Flagship, the Work Package responsible for advancing standardisation of graphene
- Amaia Zurutuza from Graphenea (Spain) explains the graphene challenges in standardisation
Reporting on day 4
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- Some highlights
- Overview of the "Nature symposium on biomedial applications", session co-organised by Nature Materials, Nature Physics and the Graphene Flagship.
- Professor Tony Heinz (Stanford University, USA) spoke about his research on heterojunctions, a theme that has run throughout the whole conference.
- Professor Frank Koppens (ICFO, Spain), reporting about optoelectronics and graphene
- Interviews of Peter Makk, and Ewa Sawosz, winners of the poster prizes
Reporting on day 5
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- Alberto Bianco (CNRS, FR) reporting on his presentation on enzymatic degradation of graphene and 2D materials
- Announcement Graphene Week 2017: Athens
Visit the posters session at Graphene Week 2016.
All the Graphene Week 2016 videos are available on the Graphene Flagship Youtube channel.